Congratulations to Maxim Alyukov on the publication in Perspectives on Politics! The article examines how the Kremlin turned pseudo fact-checking into a propaganda strategy and how it affects citizens. It’s available here: doi.org/10.1017/S153....

My new paper with Margarita Zavadskaya is out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! Since 2022, the Kremlin has turned pseudo fact checking into a key propaganda strategy. But how does it affect citizens? We run an experiment to answer this Q (10/): doi.org/10.1017/S153...

📢 My NEW ARTICLE in #IJPP: 2.3M domestic TV news episodes (2009–2019) in #Russia across 8 major networks + Interfax. NLP + Diff-in-Diff around the 2016 RBC TV takeover to estimate shifts in #Ukraine -focused news. Free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New preprint is out! Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7